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Canadian Architects Oral History collection
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- Sound recording
- Textual record
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14 recordings in analogue and digitized formats. – 2 typed transcripts.
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Administrative history
The collection was begun by the Canadian Architectural Archives to preserve the reflections of prominent Canadian architects of the 20thCentury. Dr. Michael McMordie and Dr. Harold Kalman, who were teaching architecture at the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia, and Jack Peach, a Calgary local historian and journalist recorded the reminiscences of the architects.
Custodial history
The recordings were donated by the interviewers.
Scope and content
The collection to date consists of 13 interviews which were conducted between 1972 and 1981 by Dr. Harold Kalman, Dr. Michael McMordie and Jack Peach. The interviewed architects include Arthur Erickson; R. Berwick and C.E. Pratt of Thompson, Berwick, Pratt & Partners; John Y. McCarter and William Leithead of McCarter Nairne & Partners; William Edgar Noffke , son of architect Werner Ernst Noffke; J.C. Parkin and Doug Rowland of John B. Parkin/NORR (Firm); Hugh Wyndham Seton; D. Shadbolt; G.L.T. Sharp of Thompson, Berwick, Pratt & Partners ; and John Stevenson of Stevenson and Raines. There is also one recording of a class lecture given by Arthur Erickson in a course taught by Dr. Michael McMordie in the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) at the University of Calgary. Typed transcripts exist for the interviews by H. Kalman with John Y. McCarter and William Leithead, and by J. Peach with John Stevenson.
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- English
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There are no access restrictions.
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Finding aids
An inventory of interviews is available at the repository.
Associated materials
See Dr. Michael McMordie fonds; McCarter Nairne fonds; Stevenson Raines fonds; Edwin Raines fonds; Thompson, Berwick, Pratt & Partners fonds; John B. Parkin/NORR (Firm) fonds.
Accruals
Further deposits of interviews are expected.
General note
Record No.: Acc 20A/77.69; Acc 94A/80.29; Acc 286A/05.01
General note
MP3 files were copied to CDs for access purpose, WAV files were created for preservation purposes. Biographical information on some of the architects is contained in their fonds description.